LOOK UPWARD by Alexander McLaren

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1902

LOOK UPWARD.

By Alexander McLaren

It is wise for us to look at the dangers, to be fully aware of the perils, to be tremblingly conscious of our own weakness; but it is folly and faithlessness to look at the danger so exclusively, or to feel our own weakness so keenly, as that either one or the other, or both of them combined, shall obscure to our sight the far greater and confidence-giving truth of the knowledge, the sympathy, and the extended protecting hand of our Brother and our Lord. We belong to Him if we have yielded our hearts to Him, and He will not “suffer His holy one to see corruption,” here or hereafter.

If you look down from the narrow ledge of the Alpine arrete to the thousand feet of precipice on either side of the two or three inches where you have your footing, you will get giddy and fall. If you look up, you will walk steadily. Do not ignore the danger nor presumptuously forget your own weakness; but “when I said, My foot slippeth, Thy mercy held me up.”

Recognize the slippery ice and the feeble foot, and couple with them the other thought, “The Lord knoweth them that are His.”—Alexander McLaren.